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In choosing where to read, some people find it helpful to follow the daily lectionary.
Others find it simpler to follow a study guide available from various Christian
publishers. You may simply want to choose a passage that interests you-a gospel
or an epistle, perhaps-and study it on your own using commentaries and other study
aids.
This is not quite the same
as study, although the two often occur together or at nearly the same time. However,
while one can remain relatively objective in the pure study of Holy Scripture,
meditation requires that the believer allow the words and ideas to affect him
personally-to speak to his own situation. While studying the passage may be like
carefully laying a brick in line with other bricks, meditation is like stepping
back and seeing the mansion as a building where people will someday live.
when you express your concerns, needs, intercessions
to the Lord, and allow him to answer you by quietly listening. This too can be
a natural outflow of your study and mediation, as it is often in a time of meditating
before the Lord that our questions and needs are met.
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